seringueiron.
/ˌsɛrɪŋˈɡɛːrəʊ/, U.S. /ˌsɛrəŋˈɡɛroʊ/ In Brazil: a person employed to harvest natural rubber; a rubber worker. Cf. seringa n.2
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > rubber-gatherer
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1832 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 7 Jan. 17/1 Several proprietors of Fazendas, and some poor people of colour, who have hence acquired the name of Seringeiros, have lately devoted themselves to this occupation [sc. producing rubber].
1854 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 17 June 377/1 The people employed to gather and dry the seringa are called seringeros. An industrious man is able to make sixteen pounds of rubber in a day.
1860 M. Reid Odd People 82 The ‘seringero’ has provided a large quantity of palm-nuts, with which he intends to make a fire for smoking the caoutchouc.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 797/1 A Portuguese novelist, perhaps the only literary man who has ever actually worked as a seringueiro.
1970 E. B. Burns Hist. Brazil v. 240 The dwindling number of Indians was pressed into service as seringueiros... The isolated, difficult life of the exploited seringueiro explained the recruitment problem.
1994 Environments Summer 66/2 In Acre, the livelihood of the seringueiros..has been disrupted by the construction of a major highway across the state.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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